South America News

A woman jumped off a towering waterfall in Guyana on Saturday in an apparent suicide, tourism workers said.

RELATIVES of eight victims of an Air France flight that crashed en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris have filed lawsuits in the US and UK seeking damages.

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is once again under fire over the contents of a security pact that permits wide-ranging U.S. access to Colombian military bases as part of counter-narcotic and counter-terrorism operations in South America.

Colombian officials say three adults have been killed and two children wounded in two related anti-personnel mine blasts in the country's northwest.

London India's financial hub Mumbai and political capital Delhi are likely to witness a significant jump in economic growth along with other emerging markets and make it to the league of the world's wealthiest cities by 2025, a report says.

The Plaza Mayor in Villa de Leyva, a mountain-valley town founded by the Spanish in 1572, is notable for its unadorned vastness in Colombia in October 2009.

Bogota, Nov 6 The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia called on the people to close ranks against the agreement that allows the United States to use seven military bases in the national territory.

A passenger in silhouette watches an Air France aircraft at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport September 25, 2002 in Roissy, France.

Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-racked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, the Guyanese president said.

Massive power outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 that impacted millions were caused by cyber hackers attacking control systems, the US television network CBS says.

A series of power outages affecting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were the result of cyber attacks, 60 MINUTES has learned.

Around dinnertime tonight, the Toronto region will find out whether it has finally overcome the stigma of past failed Olympic bids to host its first major international sporting event since the 1930s: the 2015 Pan American Game.

Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association said Friday.

They are the face of Chilean guidebooks: giant statues made of volcanic rock scattered across Easter Island.

President Shimon Peres is scheduled to leave for South America on Monday for state visits to Brazil and Argentina.

BOGOTA: Colombia's navy Wednesday seized 2,219 kg cocaine off the Andean nation's Pacific coast, authorities said, adding that a US Coast Guard vessel aided in the seizure.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said on Thursday that a deal to end a four-month political crisis was at risk of collapse but behind the scenes negotiators worked to form a temporary cabinet to run the country.

Galery: Parreira's back! The second coming of Carlos Alberto Parreira began officially early Thursday morning as he strode into OR Tambo international airport to again take up the helm of Bafana Bafana.

MasterCard Worldwide, Credicard, Citibank's credit card administrator for the Brazilian market, and Redecard have announced the launch of MasterCard PayPass contactless payment technology in Rio de Janeiro for public transportation and other quick service merchants.

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